Kicking and Screaming I am Bloggin

Remember when I told you to sign up for the free drawing for the SMB Nation Admittance offered by Calyptix?

Well today they announced the first (yes you can still sign up) winner.
Here is a copy of the note I just got

Andy,

 Click here to add your name to the list of hopefuls or visit our website at www.calyptix.com

 The Calyptix Security Team

  

 Calyptix Security Corporation
8701 Mallard Creek Rd.
Charlotte, NC 28262
 www.calyptix.com

So are you thinking about your roadmap to SBS 2008 for your clientsyet? If you find yourself needing to buy hardware you should be thinking what am I going to need. Of course by now you have heard there is not going to be a two nic solution. You have also heard SBS 2008 only runs as a 64 bit server. Has it registered yet that means no in-place upgrade? OK I will wait for you to pick yourself up off the floor.

Here are a couple of really good posts to get you thinking in the SBS 2008 Reality.

Amy on One Nic

Susan on Migrating

And have you ever wondered just went on in the secret offices in Redmond, Sean shares a candid view

 What, you haven’t even heard SBS 2008 was soon to release, Dean will fill you in on some of the new Features

Well it has been a long time coming, but it is finally here. Power Pack 1as it has been christened includes the fix for thedata corruption bug that had given Windows HomeServer a black eye for so long.

Finally we can trust it again and use it as the great product it was destined to be.

HA-Edit: Seems Vlad just did a mini-review, read the Good, the Bad and the (how could you call such a cute product ugly, I won’t do it)  :>)

Fire Mountain Family Steakhouse 1180 S. Main Street, Kernersville, 27284, 336-996-0456 

Keep an eye on our website at www.tSBSg.org for updates

OH YA I would be remiss if I didn’t mention SMB Nation’s 2008 Conference

http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/shortmovie.php

This is pretty neat 30 second video. Have you ever seen one of our military walking

past you and wanted to convey to them your thanks, but weren’t sure
how or it felt awkward?

Recently, a gentleman from Seattle created a gesture which could be used and has

started a movement to get the word out.

Please everybody take just a moment to watch…. The Gratitude Campaign .

and then forward it to your friends! 

THEN START USING THE SIGN.

Are you beta testing SBS 2008 (Cougar) and still a little confused over certificates on remote computers and mobile devices? Hop on over to Sean’s Blog he will straighted you out :>)

Mark Crall one of the Microsoft PAL’s has put up a survey to collect your input about subscription income.

He will be sitting in a meeting in Redmond next week and since he represents us out here in the channel, he would like some input from you about what to represent. Yes when I took it, it felt as if it was designed to get me to agree with the announcements made at WWPC, but you don’t have to answer every question (some don’t have a good choice) and the last one is an open box where you can make you opinion heard.

So please, at least take a look at the questions and answer the ones that don’t bother you, otherwise you have no right to critique the process you didn’t bother to participate in.

As you may have figured out by now, I am not at WWPC this year, just couldn’t afford the time or the money.

But I have been following the announcements and blog posts. Vlad is doing a series of Pod-Casts interviewing some of the well known people in our space. Yesterday he did an interview with Mark Crall and today he picked Scott Colson’s (CRM MVP) brain. They run about 30 minutes each, but are well worth the time to listen.

Just try not to get busted looking stupid like I did when my wife walked into my office and said why are you starring at a black screen. If you have a simplex brain like me and cannot do two things at once, open QuickBooks so it doesn’t look like you have lost your mind :>)

You may want to hold off installing Hotfix 948110 for a few days, there are some issues popping up.

Here is the offical word from Microsoft

HA-edit 7/12/2008: MS has released new information and is now saying all but a few exception READ ARTICLE should go ahead and install. They are working on fixing the detection logic, my advise is to still do nothing until it is fixed properly.